The matchup will be part of the Versus-televised main card and will
take place March 3 at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Ky. The
event will be headlined by a welterweight duel between dangerous
Dane Martin
Kampmann and the resurgent Diego
Sanchez.

Stevenson-Castillo serves as a late replacement for a welterweight
contest between Paulo
Thiago and Johny
Hendricks. That fight was scrapped after Thiago withdrew last
week due to injury. Left without an opponent, Hendricks was also
taken off the card.

After winning season two of “The Ultimate Fighter” as a
welterweight, Stevenson made the cut to 155 pounds in 2006. “Joe
Daddy” proceeded to win four straight fights en route to a shot at
B.J.
Penn’s lightweight championship. Since falling to Penn at
UFC
80, the Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt has lost four of his
last seven fights, most recently dropping back-to-back bouts at the
hands of George
Sotiropoulos and Mac Danzig. A
three-time recipient of “Fight of the Night” honors inside the
Octagon, Stevenson owns 14 of his 31 career victories by
submission.

Conversely, Castillo rides consecutive victories into his bout with
the more experienced Stevenson. A seven-time WEC veteran, “Last
Call” bounced back from losses to Shane
Roller and Anthony
Pettis to defeat Dustin
Poirier and Will Kerr at
WEC
50 and WEC
53, respectively. The
Team Alpha Male representative has finished eight of his 10
victims and has been knocked out only once in his three-year
career.